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The Thinking Leaf

19621h 25mMovie

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

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Cast

Koji Tsuruta
Shinjirō Ehara
Midori Isomura
Isao Kimura
Kenjiro Uemura
Nobuo Yana
Seiichirō Kameishi
Naoko Kubo
Ken Mitsuda
Eijirō Yanagi
Shinji Nakahara
Yasushi Nagata
Fusatarō Ishijima
Tadashi Suganuma

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Director: Hajime Sato
Writers: Seicho Matsumoto, Gorō Tanada
Release date: May 16, 1962
Runtime: 1h 25m
Original language: Japanese
Studios: Toei Company

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The Ballad of Narayama19838.8
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